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Family. Sometimes it can be a force of great strength. An impossible barrier to get passed when everyone's working together to accomplish a goal. Sometimes, though, family is a source of great pain. When one person breaks, the rest follow suit without choice. It's a large scale domino effect that could be impossible to overcome. You try your hardest not to let the cycle continue, but then something happens: one too many empty promises, one too many broken hearts, one too many criticsms, the list of possibilities endless. The inevitable occurs and you find yourself backed into a wall by the person you thought was always going to protect and love you unconditionally. You try to help the person, but time after time your efforts are proved unsuccessful and unappreciated. You want nothing more than to give up and quit as the person standing before you turns into a complete stranger, but your obligation to protect and love them no matter how many times they screw up and are wrong doe...